"Director: Phil Tippett"

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  The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the world's preeminent stop-motion animator.

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  Starship Troopers (Dir. Paul Verhoeven) (1998): The Federation needs you for a desperate do-or-die mission in 'Starship Troopers' the ultimate sci-fi action thriller from the director of 'Total Recall'... hailed for its mind-blowing special effects and amazing futuristic settings! The new millenium brings man face-to-face with the deadliest enemy of all... an intelligent race of alien bugs some thirty feet tall some that fly and all capable of destroying every living thing on Earth! That's where brave young freedom fighter Johnny Rico comes in. While Johnny trains in an elite infantry unit his stunning girlfriend Carmen becomes a top starship pilot - but is seduced by a suave flight instructor! Join their mission to the aliens' home planet where an all out inter-planetary war is about to begin... with mankind on the line. Epic filmmaking and jarring action sequences that put you in the middle of it all make 'Starship Troopers' the definitive space-age story in this or any other universe. Starship Troopers 2: Hero Of The Federation (Dir. Phil Tippett) (2003): In this rapid-fire sequel to the cult favorite the Federation's best Mobile Infantry unit goes back into action against the Bug horde. But this time the Bugs are waiting for them. Trapped on a remote outpost light years from the nearest reinforcements a small group of soldiers fights an enemy smarter and more cunning than any they've ever faced. Now they must join forces with an infamous traitor if they are to have any hope. Starship Troppers 3: Marauder (Dir. Edward Neumeier) (2008): A Federation Starship crash-lands on the distant Alien planet OM-1 stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke (Stephen Hogan) and several others including pilot Lola Beck (Jolene Blalock). It's up to Colonel/General Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) reluctant hero of the original Bug Invasion on Planet P to lead a team of Troopers on a daring rescue mission.

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  Starship Troopers (Dir. Paul Verhoeven) (1998): The Federation needs you for a desperate do-or-die mission in 'Starship Troopers' the ultimate sci-fi action thriller from the director of 'Total Recall'... hailed for its mind-blowing special effects and amazing futuristic settings! The new millenium brings man face-to-face with the deadliest enemy of all... an intelligent race of alien bugs some thirty feet tall some that fly and all capable of destroying every living thing on Earth! That's where brave young freedom fighter Johnny Rico comes in. While Johnny trains in an elite infantry unit his stunning girlfriend Carmen becomes a top starship pilot - but is seduced by a suave flight instructor! Join their mission to the aliens' home planet where an all out inter-planetary war is about to begin... with mankind on the line. Epic filmmaking and jarring action sequences that put you in the middle of it all make 'Starship Troopers' the definitive space-age story in this or any other universe. Starship Troopers 2: Hero Of The Federation (Dir. Phil Tippett) (2003): In this rapid-fire sequel to the cult favorite the Federation's best Mobile Infantry unit goes back into action against the Bug horde. But this time the Bugs are waiting for them. Trapped on a remote outpost light years from the nearest reinforcements a small group of soldiers fights an enemy smarter and more cunning than any they've ever faced. Now they must join forces with an infamous traitor if they are to have any hope. Starship Troppers 3: Marauder (Dir. Edward Neumeier) (2008): A Federation Starship crash-lands on the distant Alien planet OM-1 stranding beloved leader Sky Marshal Anoke (Stephen Hogan) and several others including pilot Lola Beck (Jolene Blalock). It's up to Colonel/General Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) reluctant hero of the original Bug Invasion on Planet P to lead a team of Troopers on a daring rescue mission.

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  The bugs are back! A small group of troopers find themselves taking refuge in an abandoned outpost as they attempt to fight the encroaching Arachnids - not realizing that a much graver danger is actually infiltrating their unit....

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  Starship Troopers: The new millenium brings man face-to-face with the deadliest enemy of all... an intelligent race of alien bugs some thirty feet tall some that fly and all capable of destroying every living thing on Earth! That's where brave young freedom fighter Johnny Rico comes in. While Johnny trains in an elite infantry unit his stunning girlfriend Carmen becomes a top starship pilot - but is seduced by a suave flight instructor! Join their mission to the aliens' home planet where an all out inter-planetary war is about to begin... with mankind on the line. Epic filmmaking and jarring action sequences that put you in the middle of it all make 'Starship Troopers' the definitive space-age story in this or any other universe. Starship Troopers 2 - Hero Of The Federation: The bugs are back! A small group of troopers find themselves taking refuge in an abandoned outpost as they attempt to fight the encroaching Arachnids - not realizing that a much graver danger is actually infiltrating their unit....

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  Allowing for all the low-budget shortcomings that plague any straight-to-video production, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation serves up 92 minutes of passable SF action. Parlaying his veteran status as an animator, special-effects wizard, and stalwart survivor of the CGI revolution, Phil Tippett (with returning screenwriter Ed Neumeier) makes a woefully uninspired directorial debut with this makeshift sequel to Paul Verhoeven's 1997 blockbuster, retaining the jarhead militarism of Robert Heinlein's original novel while serving up more bugs, an all-new cast of attractive young stars and all-too-familiar plot elements borrowed from a dozen better movies. "Bigger is better" is out of the question under such meagre budgetary circumstances, so Tippett and Neumeier compensate with gruesome bug fights and gross-out effects at regular intervals, some standard-issue nudity and escalating paranoia (echoing Carpenter's The Thing) when a new breed of bugs use human hosts (à la The Hidden) to overtake a stranded platoon of Federation soldiers on a bug-infested planet. Relying on murky confinement to hide nondescript sets, Starship Troopers 2 has three engaging leads in its favour: US TV regular Richard Burgi is solidly cast as the titular hero (he's the military equivalent of Pitch Black's Riddick); Colleen Porch is engaging as the most sensible Federation survivor; and screen veteran Ed Lauter makes the most of his salty role as a battle-hardened general. Unfortunately, they're adrift in a knock-off sequel (shot on high-def digital video) that could never do justice to its energetic predecessor. --Jeff Shannon